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Month: September, 2006

book review vol. six: The Catcher in the Rye

This is the first of my book reviews in which I’ve attempted to tackle not only a non-Christian book, but a modern day classic in it’s own right. That said, I’m getting in deeper than I have any business getting, so do grant me grace. The Cather in the Rye was recommended to me by [...]

remember when?

Remember back when you would walk in to church with your parents and while they were handed a bulletin you would receive a kids bulletin? You would sit in big church and diligently work on all the activities the kids bulletin offered before the preacher really got into his talk, in which time you slept [...]

I’m so hungry!

They say you don’t know what you got til it’s gone (I believe it was Amy Grant, and later the Counting Crows). I think that’s true a lot of times, but not all of the time.When I was in College Station, I was fully aware of what I had. I had more close friends than [...]

spellchecks and showers

Remember that list of 75 things I like? I think it was the most crowd-pleasing event on online diary for the masses since the Chinese Haircut piece. Well ever since I made that list public, I’ve been thinking of things that I like even more than those things, and I feel bad that they didn’t [...]

spectrums and free tunes

There are no shortage of spectrums that we can find ourselves on in this life. Conservative – LiberalCalvinism – Armenianism As popular as the preceeding are, another spectrum that is more popular now than it ever has been is the one of how people view downloading free music off the internet. Stealing – It’s there, [...]